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"I want to I want to " he floundered; "I would like to get on my shoes and my co't and and I'll be right back. I won't try to I'll be right back, I say." Mr. Nute suspended his reading, looked over his spectacles, and gave the required permission. Perhaps it occurred to his official sense that a bit more dignified attire would suit the occasion better.
Behind the decrier of mariners were men with other shovels, hoes, and pickaxes listening. The granite post marked the town line between Smyrna and Vienna. The post was four miles or so from Smyrna village, and Constable Nute had driven out to interview the first selectman, bringing as a passenger a slim, pale young man, who was smoking cigarettes, one after the other.
"'Now look here, Nute, I said, 'you're not trading with Tavor on this deal. You're trading with me and I'm just as slick as you are. You'll get no chance to slip under on this. You forget all I've told you just as though it had nothing to do with what I'm going to tell you, and I'll come to the point. "'Forget it? he said. "'Yes, I said, 'forget it.
He handed the paper to Nute with orders to post it after the signatures of the two associate selectmen had been secured. Then to his surprise Hiram Look received an extremely benignant smile from the Cap'n. "You ain't objectin' any to the special town-meetin', then?" inquired Hiram, losing some of his apprehensiveness.
Aaron Sproul, a devoted member of the W.T.W.'s, was appointed a committee of one to sound him, and found him, even in the sweet privacy of home, so singularly embarrassed and uncommunicative that her affectionate heart was disturbed and grieved. Then came Constable Zeburee Nute into the presence of the town's chief executive with a complaint.
'Here's another one of them there's all kinds. "But it hooked him. We wrote out the terms and put the stuff up with old Commodore Harris the straightest sport in America. Nute had the right to copy the map, and the text and a year to verify it. And I took the ten thousand back to Charlie Tavor." Barclay got up and went over to the window. He drew back the heavy tapestry curtains.
He buttoned his jacket and hurried into Hiram's team, which was at the door. And with Hiram as charioteer they made time toward the Crymble place. Just out of the village they swept past Constable Zeburee Nute, whose slower Dobbin respectfully took the side of the highway.
And if any of you quitters and cowards have got anything to say why my sentence won't be carried out, now is the time to say it." He glowered into their faces, but no one said anything except Zeburee Nute, who quavered: "We allus knowed you was the smartest man that ever came to this town, and " "Close that mouth!" yelped Cap'n Sproul. "It's worse than an open hatch on a superphosphate schooner."
Nute merely stared, without trying to catch the drift of this indistinct muttering.
Barclay paused and flicked the ashes from his cigarette. "You know the swell apartments on Fifth Avenue; no name, only a number; every floor a residence, only the elevators connecting them. I found old Nute in the seventh; and I was bucked the moment I got in. "The door from the drawing room to the library was open.
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